Warm up into your runs

Many of us don’t take the time to properly prepare our bodies for our run training sessions. We step out the door and start running, maybe with an easier jog at first but often not for long. Taking longer to warm up into your runs is an excellent tool for injury prevention. Walk for 5 minutes (just let go of your ego!) and then do some drills to engage more of your lower legs muscles.  Walk pulling a knee up to your chest with each stride, walk on your tip toes, your heels, pigeon foot, duck foot, do some skipping, some rhythm bounding, some a b c’s  and leg crossovers (aka jogging grapvines or karaoke steps) and even some strides as you get warm. This will help activate all those stabilizer muscles that will enable you to keep your form and improve your run economy through the latter part of your run.